“The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.”

In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It’s great.

The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

It’s important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.

Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

There’s so much noise that’s happening in our world, but the little voice that you’ve always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it’s value to the audience and it’s value to me then I’m going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.

Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures – I take that into life.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I know how important it is to have people who believe in you even when you don’t believe in yourself.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don’t ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.